. I don't want any spinoff or anything that detracts or distracts from that," HBO president Casey Bloys told members of the press during a small group interview at the 2017 summer TV Critics' Association press tour. "That season will happen, my guess is it would be at least a year before you saw anything else. What I don't want is the attention to be drawn from the final season, which I think is going to be epic and amazing, and somehow have the distraction of a new Game of Thrones airing right after it. I think it's best to separate it, and that's what we'll do."

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During his executive session during the TCA HBO press day, Bloys was asked to clarify that none of the Game of Thrones spinoff shows that are currently being considered include characters from the current show.

"That is correct," Bloys sated. So even if a character is lucky enough to survive all eight seasons of Game of Thrones, there will be no further adventures with them. So no Everyone Loves Khaleesi or House Stark Hunters. Sorry.

It's still early days on the development of the Game of Thrones spinoff shows. Bloys said he "[hasn't] seen anything yet. With a show like Game of Thrones and the level of quality they've set, we'd be lucky to get one that hits, and we're hopeful."

There are numerous published stories these writers could draw upon for a potential spinoff. Martin's Dunk and Egg novellas, which are set about a century before the events of Game of Thrones, are likely contenders for at least getting a spinoff treatment. A series based on Robert's Rebellion -- aka the sequence of events that led Robert Baratheon to be king and overthrow the Targaryens -- is also a frequently speculated and hoped-for spinoff concept, though Martin previously said that Robert's Rebellion won't be the focus of any of these shows.